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Perfume Pagoda

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March 22nd 2007
After passing the Perfume Pagoda - we're still not sure exactly what it is- we walked up thousands of steep mud coated steps swarming with Buddhist pilgrims to a sacred cave near the top of a mountain. After a few hours of incessant evading of gaudy glittery bauble sellers, we were dying for a bit of piece and quiet. Not possible. There would have been well over 20,000 people on the river and on t ... read more

Asia » Vietnam

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The conquest of Vietnam by France began in 1858 and was completed by 1884. It became part of French Indochina in 1887. Independence was declared after World War II, but the French continued to rule until 1954 when they were defeated by Communist forc... ... read more